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A little history of Hotchkin genealogical research:Until 1988, the descendents of John Hodgkin (or Hotchkin), arrived in or before 1642 in Guilford, New Haven Colony, Connecticut, had not been collected in book form. Some had appeared in articles in genealogical periodicals, and they had figured in books about other families. However, until the "first edition" (produced with the great assistance of the late Audrey Carver and Elsie Moon), anyone studying their Hotchkin descent was condemned to flail about trying to sort out Hotchkins (and Hodgkins, and Hochkins, etc.) from the New Haven family of Samuel Hotchkiss. That family, fortunately, is well documented by the Hotchkiss Family Society. Two small private printings of the 1988 volume (pictured below), under Library of Congress Catalog Card number 88-70416, then, was the first Hotchkin book.
The number of people who contributed to that volume
is large. Indeed, your author felt confident that if there was anyone in the
United States who was researching Hotchkin (or any variant), their material was
included. Elsie and Audrey participated
enthusiastically in ensuring that we had everyone covered. Even the Hotchkiss
Family Society pitched in, actively referring everyone who inquired of them who
seemed to be a Hotchkin to us.. They checked their correspondence files for decades
back for anyone who might have information but no longer be active. Needless
to say, very soon after publication another Hotchkin researcher came to light. |
Edgar Hotchkin, who was not an
original purchaser of the first
volumes and who was previously unknown to all of us, obtained a copy of the original
book. As soon as he saw it, he knew of some significant omissions from his research of his own line. Then, he and his wife
undertook a three year cross-country odyssey, collecting additional Hotchkin
material. The result was his impressive The Descendents of John Hotchkin of Guilford, CT.
So, in a mere six years, the Hotchkin family went from no books about the family
genealogy to two. Presumably we ought to have let well enough alone at this point. |
However, Edgar Hotchkin concentrated heavily on the
male lines -- lines that bear the Hotchkin name today. That has the
effect of reducing by half the number of descendents to catalog, and greatly
simplifies research. However, in these times it is worse than
simply being politically incorrect -- it invites error. As a descendent of a
so-called "spousal line" (i.e. the descendent of someone named
Hotchkin who happened to be female), and as the father of a daughter, somehow it
didn't seem right to your author to leave all those people out who were genetically Hotchkins, but no longer bore the name. One need only glance at the
weddings in the Sunday New York Times to realize that many young brides today
elect to keep their own names when marrying instead of assuming their husband's
name. Many children today are assigned double surnames and sometimes even less predictable
ones -- such as a surname of an admired childless friend. |
Given this, a mere twelve years after the first edition of this author's John Hodgkin (Hotchkin) of Guilford, CT and his Descendents, Ed Hotchkin began research in his distaff lines, as did we begin a new Hotchkin study that incorporates the whole shebang, so to speak. Sooner or later, hopefully, we will have a compilation of ALL descendents of John Hodgkin of Guilford, CT. It will include not only those with the Hotchkin surnamebut also all spousal lines. We would like to include collateral lines as well. As such it may be potentially important as a source for "hidden geneaologies". Although our project is currently inactive, Ed Hotchkin has done some excellent additional work. There is a link to his website at the top of this page, and we encourage you to take that line and check it out.
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Did you know... |
That a Hotchkin descendent, the Rev. James H. Hotchkin, was the author of an important book about the history of Western New York State, published in 1848? Did you know... That we have republished that book on CD-ROM?
Some news, located in the National Archives, may
shed light on the origin of a number of Americans who bear the Hotchkin name but
have not previously been claimed by the family. These are the so-called "Black
Hotchkins". These folks mainly originated in the American South and Southwest, and
often with family traditions that are strongly Native American. We THINK we
have the answer. Yes, the Black Hotchkins are our family
members. |
We did prepare an index of where we were when we stopped work on our
newest Hotchkin project. It's here, and you should feel free to
check it out. |
1. Send the information
the author needs to add them --
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to send a message to Between the
Lakes Group (be sure to specify that you're interested in the Hotchkin
family) --
and we'll see where they fit the family. That would be great. You will be
ensuring your family their rightful place in history. While you're
at it, you should also contact Ed Hotchkin via his website,
www.hotchkinfamilyhistory.com.
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and 2. Keep checking back
here every so often to see
what's going on from our end of
the Hotchkin family world. For example, we would like to
re-publish MORE works authored by Hotchkins! |
Anyway, the second partial index is out there right
now. We'll probably return to the project eventually, although we cannot
promise when that will be. |
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And Welcome!!!if you would like to be notified by e-mail when the second
edition of this work is available, please provide your e-mail address below. |
UPDATE!! We're not seeing
very much demand for this genealogy/eHistory project. As a result, we have
temporarily stopped working on it and are working on others. Want to see the Hotchkin
CD-ROM eventually? Want us to get back to work on it? Let us know. |
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Sorry!! We've been sidetracked!!We've been busy preparing CD-ROMs about Liberty, New York, and Neversink, New York -- lots of Hotchkins both places -- as well as Canaan, CT and Fallsburgh, NY!! That's not to mention republication of Child's Gazetteer and Business Directory of Sullivan County, NY. We've completed them, and all are now shipping. If you're interested in knowing more about (or even purchasing) these CD-ROMs, please click the red button:
But we have not had much demand for the Hotchkin project!! If you want this project completed, you've got to tell us!
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Geoff Brown would like to be able to include it in THIS edition.
to contact us right away! And, visit
Ed Hotchkin's website at
www.hotchkinfamilyhistory.com as well!!
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